| Reference number | PT/73/10/18 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, ovaries and testes of the lamprey and conger eel by F [Franz Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1823] |
| Description | Plate 15, figures 1-4 showing the ovaries and testicles of the lamprey, at magnifications of x2 and x5. Figures 5-7 show the ovaries, testicles, and air bladder of the conger eel, at natural size and at magnifications of x5 and x50. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil lower left 'F. Bauer delt.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology / Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and earth worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 27 February 1823. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 255x178mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0207 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0014 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/16/13 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9902 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7476 | Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840) | 1758 - 1840 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |